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In the latest development in its decades-long leadership in the area of palliative care, the University of Rochester Medical Center’s Palliative Care Program is one of the first nationwide to earn ...

T. Franklin Williams, M.D., a founding father of the field of geriatric medicine in the United States and a mentor and model for dozens of geriatricians, died at his home in Rochester, N.Y., Friday, ...

As the world approaches the 23rd anniversary of World AIDS Day, recent developments in global vaccine research are providing a glimmer of hope that an effective vaccine might be within reach. The ...

The University of Rochester has been awarded a U.S. patent for research essential to both human papillomavirus vaccines on the market. The patent is for the creation of virus-like particles that ...

When the Bell family gathers Thursday to give thanks, they will add the doctors and nurses at the University of Rochester Medical Center to the list of blessings received this year. For the first ...

The University of Rochester Medical Center’s Department of Otolaryngology welcomes Margo Benoit, M.D., Sveta Karelsky, M.D., and Li-Xing Man, M.Sc., M.D., M.P.A., to its faculty.

James Garbern, M.D., Ph.D., a Professor of Neurology, died on November 10 after a battle with cancer. He was 58.

The 36th annual Great American Smokeout, sponsored by the American Cancer Society, takes place Thursday, November 17, and experts at the Wilmot Cancer Center and the Greater Rochester Area Tobacco ...

For chronic pain sufferers, a day can feel like a year and a year can feel like an eternity. With very few truly new therapies approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for this condition ...

The brain scans of high school football and hockey players showed subtle injury -- even if they did not suffer a concussion – after taking routine hits to the head during the normal course of play, ...